Friday, June 26, 2015

Given that we are paying way above the European norm for our booze but, allegedly, drinking like fish (can a fish drink?) why does Nanny insist that raising prices is the cure all for our modest intake of booze?

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

As we endure a typically mediocre June (weatherwise) it is gemusing to see that the use of sunscreen, so hyped and pushed by Nanny and pharmacies etc, is in fact endangering men's sperm.

Research found that just 25% of young men were producing good quality sperm,
and the average volume had declined by a quarter since the 1940s. The
findings, presented at the European Society of Human Reproduction and
Embryology’s annual meeting in Lisbon, prompted warnings from doctors
that consumer lifestyles may have created a toxic environment for men.

Dr Niels Jorgensen, a consultant at the Department of Growth and
Reproduction at Rigshospitalet, in Copenhagen, said is quoted by the Telegraph:

“Modern life is having an
impact because we are exposed to so many chemicals and we don’t know
what they do.”

Chemicals found in sun cream, cosmetics, frying
pans, cars, foods and even in items of clothing could all increase risks
to sperm, he suggested.

He went on to say:

“We are advised to protect ourselves with these sunblocks but it seems
when you go to the laboratory and test some of these chemicals they can
interfere with the sperm function.

If I was to advise my own family I would say don’t use it.”

Given that the British summer is usually crap anyway, I have found Nanny's obsession with sunscreen to be perverse to say the least!

"A new study published this month
in The International Journal of Clinical Practice, researchers at
Hanseo University in South Korea turned to a handy recruit group: young
women at the university studying to become airline attendants who were
required to wear high heels to class, since they would have to wear them
if hired by a Korean airline. With each passing year, from incoming
freshmen to seniors, the women would have one additional year of heel
wearing behind them, making it easy to track physiological changes.

So the researchers
invited 10 young women from each class to the lab and tested their
balance with a wobbly board and the strength of their ankle muscles
using computerized exercise machines.

The results were
interesting. Compared with the freshmen, who were generally new to
wearing heels, the sophomores and juniors displayed greater strength in
some of the muscles around their ankles, particularly those on the
inside and outside of the joint.

This difference
between new and experienced heel wearers suggests that “wearing high
heeled shoes may at first lead to adaptation and increased strength,” as
the ankle responds to the stresses placed upon it by the unfamiliar
shoes, says Jee Yong-Seok, a professor of exercise physiology at Hanseo
University, who led the study.

But the senior women,
who had been wearing heels the longest, showed weakening of those same
muscles, compared even with the freshmen, as well as much weaker muscles
along the front and back of the ankle and dramatically worse balance.

In fact, all of the upperclasswomen had worse balance than the freshmen, even as some of their muscles were strengthening.

What seems to have
been happening, Dr. Yong-Seok says, is that the ratio of strength
between the muscles on the sides of the ankles and those at the front
and back became increasingly unbalanced over years of wearing heels,
contributing to ankle instability and balance problems and eventually to
a decline in the strength even of those muscles that had been stronger
for awhile.

This finding is
somewhat worrisome, says Neil Cronin, a biology professor at the
University of Jyvaskyla in Finland who has studied heel wearing and
wrote the recent review of related science.

Strength imbalances in
the muscles around a joint, he says, particularly those around the
ankle, “are known to increase injury risk in other muscle groups,” such
as those in the hamstrings or upper leg.

Dr. Yong-Seok does
recommend that people who often wear heels strengthen their ankles
whenever possible with simple heel lifts, for which you stand barefoot
and then rise onto your toes repeatedly; and heel drops, during which
you stand on the edge of a stair and slowly lower your heel over the
edge.

Dr. Cronin also
suggests slipping off heels while sitting at your desk, since wearing
the shoes, even when not moving “can alter the resting length of the
muscles and tendons around the ankle,” which could destabilize the joint
and increase the risk of injury.

He also strongly
advises against running in heels. The impact forces created “would be
concentrated over a small region of the foot in high heels, creating
regions of very high pressure,” he said, meaning foot pain. Plus balance
and biomechanics are compromised, making running in heels “a very
inefficient way to move.”"

In short, if you apply some common sense you will be fine.

Coming soon, a study on the effects of walking in bare feet on broken glass.

Saturday, June 20, 2015

"Raise your hand if you survived a childhood in the 60s, 70s,
and 80s that included one or more of the following, frowned-upon
activities (raise both hands if you bear a scar proving your daredevil
participation in these dare-devilish events):

Riding in the back of an open pick-up truck with a bunch of other kids

Leaving the house after breakfast and not returning until the
streetlights came on, at which point, you raced home, ASAP so you didn’t
get in trouble

Eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the school cafeteria

Riding your bike without a helmet

Riding your bike with a buddy on the handlebars, and neither of you wearing helmets

Drinking water from the hose in the yard

Swimming in creeks, rivers, ponds, and lakes (or what they now call *cough* “wild swimming“)

Shooting an actual gun or a bow (with *gasp* sharp arrows)
at a can on a log, accompanied by our parents who gave us pointers to
improve our aim. Heck, there was even a marksmanship club at my high
school

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

I see that Welsh Nanny has decided to ban people using e fags in enclosed spaces (including lorries and taxis) as from 2017.

Based on no scientific evidence whatsoever, Nanny has decided that the sight of someone wafting on a vap (I believe that to be the term for it) in an enclosed space may encourage kids to smoke real fags.

I think that is utter bollocks, given that an e fag looks nothing like a real fag!

More to the point, what have the dimensions of the space in which you vap got to do with the likelihood of a kid deciding to start smoking real fags?

Thursday, June 04, 2015

Nanny's best friend Theresa May has decided that we are all enjoying ourselves far too much, and wants to put a stop to it.

Her particular ire is targeted thusfar against so called "legal highs", which are chemical concoctions designed to produce similar effects to illegal substances.

Nanny has, over the past few years, been merrily banning these as soon as they hit the market. However, no sooner as one ban is put in place another variation on a substance is devised and sold perfectly legally.

Thus Nanny May is having no more of it and, despite there being no credible scientific research whatsoever about the dangers or otherwise of these substances, she has decided to push through a bill that bans them all (irrespective of whether they have been invented yet).

How can you ban something that has yet to be created?

Simples!

You ban ALL substances that are "psychoactive substances" (ones that give you pleasure, for want of a better word).

There is a wee problem with the proposed legislation.

It is in fact the worst piece of legislation (technically and ethically) ever drafted by any government in living memory.

For why?

Well did you know that tea, coffee, nuts, scented pillows etc all come under psychoactive substances?

Yes they do!

Thus there are (for the moment) exemptions eg alcohol (as long as it contains no other psychoactive substances),
nicotine, tobacco and caffeine are “exempt substances”, as are medicinal products. However, the bill appears to render the production of any new psychoactive drug for research purposes unlawful.

Additionally, butane gas, petrol, glue etc are not on the list of exemptions; despite the fact these are used by some people to get high.

Oh and the legality of efags (designed to weane you off real fags) is also questionable.

Thus the bill is pile of old shite!

I had expected this sort of bollocks from a coalition of Labour and the Scottish Nazi Party (had they won the election), but not from a Tory majority government with more pressing issues to focus on.

Tuesday, June 02, 2015

James Callan and his partner Lauren live in a 1995 built house with a driveway, that does not have a dropped pavement outside.

For reasons that are unfathomable, council workers decided to paint some double yellow lines outside their driveway recently.

Problem?

Yes!

Apparently everytime the couple park their car in their own driveway they now face a fine of £1,000.

They have been told they are breaking the law by
using the driveway as it is inside the yellow lines, and by attempting
to drive on or off their own land they will be making an illegal "vehicle crossing".

Monday, June 01, 2015

Oh dear how sad to see that there is no end to the prattery of some organisations.

Step forward Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals) who have decided that a pub founded in the eighth century in St Albans has a name that is very uncool for the 21st century, and which Peta want banned.

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